N
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1988
WITH THREE JOB
BUT THE OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE AGAIN BECKONED OFFERS. HIS CHOICE WAS CHIEF DRAUGHTSMAN/NEW TERITORIES, EVENTUALLY ARRIVED IN HONG KONG IN NOVEMBER 1964.
BRINGING
SOME
ΤΟ
AND HE
THOSE
OF
OF
SORT OF ORDER THE ACTUAL TASK INCREDIBLE OLD DISTRICT OFFICE CARTOGRAPHIC SECTIONS CAME AS A BIT A SHOCK BUT SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER WAS EVENTUALLY ACHIEVED.
SINCE THE NT POST AFTER ONE TOUR, HE WAS JOB HUNTING AGAIN,
OTHER SUITABLE POST IN HONG OFFERED NO SECURE FUTURE AND THE ONLY
WAS HELD BY A KONG CARTOGRAPHER/CROWN LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE CAREER OFFICER.
THE POST HE HAD JUST BEEN OFFERED
OF CARTOGRAPHIC TRAINING CARTOGRAPHER HAD OFFICER IN SABAH WHEN WORD CAME THAT THE INCUMBENT DIED AND IT WOULD BE WORTH RETURNING TO HONG KONG.
IN JUNE 1969. AT MR EMPSON ASSUMED THE POST OF CARTOGRAPHER
CARRIED OUT IN THAT TIME, THERE WAS LITTLE REAL MAP MAKING ACTUALLY
THEN WAS REALLY LARGE SCALE SURVEY HONG KONG. ALL THAT WAS DONE
MAPS PRODUCED IN DRAUGHTING WITH ALL TOPOGRAPHIC AND OTHER COLOURED THE U.K.
OF
WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE THE SITUATION IMPROVED SLOWLY LATEST METHODS AND NEW REPROGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT, AND THE PUBLICATION COLOURED MAPPING EXPANDED RAPIDLY.
ON
HIS
NEARLY
OF
THE ON
TWO DECADES AS LOOKING BACK
HEAD CARTOGRAPHIC UNIT, HE WAS PROMPTED TO QUIP THAT "PUTTING HONG KONG
ATMOSPHERE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME THE MAP" AND CREATING THE
SATISFYING AND SIGNIFICANT SUPERB LOCAL CARTOGRAPHERS WERE HIS MOST ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
IS HONG KONG
NOW PROBABLY THE ACCOMPLISHMENT HAS BEEN
IT WAS HARDLY AN EMPTY BOAST. BEST MAPPED TERRITORY IN THE WORLD AND THIS RECOGNISED.
AN
FIRST TIMR IN IN 1986, THE CARTOGRAPHIC UNIT ENTERED FOR THE
AND WON COMPETITION
A HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD INTERNATIONAL
MAP PRESENTED BY THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY FOR ITS TOPOGRAPHIC
THE FRONTISPIECE OF "THE TERRITORY OF HONG KONG", WHICH APPEARED AT THE 1986 HONG KONG YEAR BOOK.
t
SERIES MAP
BARTHOLOMEW
WORLD"
AWARD
WHICH
THE 1987 BCS DESIGN AWARD WAS FOR THE "COUNTRYSIDE
WHILE THE JOHN OF THE NORTH-EAST NEW TERRITORIES"
THE WAS FOR A MAP ENTITLED "HONG KONG BUYING FROM APPEARED AS THE END-PAPER MAP IN THE 1987 HONG KONG YEAR BOOK.
NO
PLACID
-H
IT CAME AS
VETERAN SURPRISE THAT THE USUALLY
THINK THAT CARTOGRAPHER SHOWED TRACES OF ANNOYANCE WHEN PEOPLE STILL
RY HONG KONG MAPS ARE BEING PRODUCED OVERSEAS OR SOMEHOW APPEAR AS IF MAGIC DIRECT FROM THE PRINTING PRESSES.
/"I THINK